care about the welfare of the consumers in terms of their health‚ environment‚ education and general wellbeing. Corporate social responsibility has come up to fill this gap. In this discourse‚ we are going to look at International Business Machines (IBM) and its social responsibility initiatives. Social Responsibility In underscoring the importance of social responsibility Hollender and Breen (2010) point out that in today’s world the society has become a ‘virtual’ licensor for businesses in
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Case Study of IBM: Employee Training through E-Learning By Admin Tuesday‚ February 15‚ 2011 0 comments Tweet “E-learning is a technology area that often has both first-tier benefits‚ such as reduced travel costs‚ and second-tier benefits‚ such as increased employee performance that directly impacts profitability.” – Rebecca Wettemann‚ research director for Nucleus Research In 2002‚ the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was ranked fourth by the Training magazine on it’s “The
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Book Report Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (Author) Lou Gerstner‚ Jr.‚ served as chairman and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until March 2002‚ when he retired as CEO. He remained chairman of the board through the end of 2002. Before joining IBM‚ Mr. Gerstner served for four years as chairman and CEO of RJR Nabisco‚ Inc. This was preceded by an eleven-year career at the American Express Company‚ where he was president of the
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IBM Case Study US Dairy Industry Leader Supply Chain Strategy and Network Optimization Overview With annual sales of more than U.S.$44 billion‚ this Dairy Industry Leader is one of the largest processors and distributors of milk and other dairy products in the United States. The company sells milk and a full range of other dairy products under more than 50 wellknown local and regional brands and a wide array of private labels. Business need: The company looked at its supply chain and saw that
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Refreshing the Values In 2003‚ CEO Sam Palmisano authorized a bold effort to refresh the values via an IBM “values jam‚” two 72-hour Web chat sessions about what IBM stands for‚ open to every IBMer in the world. When he presented the plan to the IBM board‚ one of the directors‚ a former CEO‚ questioned him about whether this was “socialism.” Palmisano explained that this was the only way to build an enduring institution in which IBMers embraced and owned the values. “It wouldn’t do to create
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An IBM Change Story: Transformational Change from Below and Above 1. Who were the forerunners/ advocates of the change? Change From Below David Grossman is a computer programmer at IBM.-John Patrick is a member of the strategy task force at IBM. Change from Above Lou Gerstner was IBM’s CEO in the 1990’s. Samuel Palmisano is IBM’s CEO from 2002 who took over Lou Gestner. 2. What changes were implemented? How was it managed? The change in IBM started in the early middle 1990’s
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Second Generation Computers (1956-1963) The computers built in the 1950s and 1960s are considered the 2nd generation computers. These computers make use of the transistors invented by Bell Telephone laboratories and they had many of the same components as the modern-day computer. For instance‚ 2nd generation computers typically had a printer‚ some sort of tape or disk storage‚ operating systems‚ stored programs‚ as well as some sort of memory. These computers were also generally more reliable
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your work style and personal traits? What other attributes do you have? Certifications? Multiple languages spoken? Additional skills (optional): Key skill Key skill Key skill Key skill TECHNICAL SUMMARY (if applicable) Hardware IBM Mainframe‚ IBM & Sun Client / Server Languages & Software SAP‚ Filenet Imaging & Workflow‚ MS Office Products‚ Visual Basic‚ Powerbuilder‚ Cobol‚ Fortran‚ CICS‚ TSO‚ JCL‚ Lotus NOTES Database Management DB2‚ IMS‚ Oracle‚ Sybase Operating Systems
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Case Study: Transforming Production Sourcing at PBG December 2009 IBM Case Study: Transforming Production Sourcing at Pepsi Bottling Group David Simchi-Levi‚ ILOG Chief Scientist‚ Application and Integration Middleware Software‚ IBM Software Group Tim Russell‚ Sr. Operations Manager ‚ Pepsi Bottling Group Brad Charles‚ Dir. Supply Chain Strategy‚ Pepsi Bottling Group Tom McLoughlin‚ VP WW Planning‚ Pepsi Bottling Group Paul Hamilton‚ Sr. VP of Supply Chain‚ Pepsi Bottling Group
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two years. Well this is causing technology or computers in this case to basically double as well. In 1957 a 0.00098 KB RAM cost $392. This is unbelievable to me considering today my phone has two-billion times the RAM. In 1955 the amount of ROM on an IBM hard-drive was 12 MB and cost a whopping $74800 or the price of a decent house today. This price was at $6233 per MB. In today’s world we forget sometimes that there were even computers with MB hard drives. In 1981‚ an 18 MB hard drive cost $2500
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